The word 'handhold' is a real word, and it is used in written English.
You can use the word 'handhold' to refer to a physical support or grasp with one's hand. For example, "He grabbed the handhold to steady himself on the ladder".
To stay on the animal, the rider utilizes only a flat-plaited rope with a handhold and an attached bell; one hand remains free.
The horse is equipped with a leather and rawhide handhold "rigging" cinched on like a saddle.
Among the items carved were mortars and spatulas used to prepare betel nut; long, flat war clubs; splashboards and decorative panels attached to the prow and stern of seagoing canoes; and dance paddles (two semicircular panels connected by a handhold bar).
Armrests facilitate transfers by providing a handhold for the individual.
This event gained favour as rodeo venues installed side-opening arena chutes and as cowboys adopted the standard Bascom rigging a surcingle (strap) with a single riveted handhold, or "suitcase handle".
He reached for the handhold next to the door of the cab, stepped onto the ridged footstep, and pulled himself up, raising his left hand to open the door.
It also makes the 3G phones that Vodafone sells in southern Europe.Capitalist re-educationBecause Alibaba's members are small enterprises and individuals, some with little experience of the internet, they can need a lot of handholding.
Some sleep on a metal slab between two carriages; other stay awake clinging to metal handholds.
You only have to visit the ossuary at the 1916 battlefield of Verdun, site of a famous handholding between Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand in 1984, to see the importance to Europe of Franco-German reconciliation.
They require a lot of "handholding", says Samiran Das of D1-BP.
He takes eight trips huddled with migrants on the roof of La Bestia ("the beast" of the title), the train that takes them from southern to northern Mexico on the way to America, threatening at any moment to grind them with its steel wheels if they lose their frozen grip on the handholds.
